Financial news website breakingviews.com has added another content partner in the guise of Chinese financial title, Caijing.
Caijing’s editors will select a daily column from the site’s output for re-publication from today, a press release from breakingviews.com said.
The site, which was founded in 1999, has already entered into syndication deals with the Telegraph, New York Times and Fortune.
The RBI sale could soon be over, reports PaidContent:UK – ‘it looks like Reed Elsevier will either get less than it hoped or pull the sale altogether.’
Total Politics, political blogger Iain Dale’s recently launched magazine, tomorrow publishes its list of top political journalists, as voted for by over 100 MPs, the magazine’s Facebook group of 500, and 130 lobby journalists. It can be viewed online, after registering, on the e-zine site.
Iain Dale told Journalism.co.uk that it’s “surprising that the BBC seems more loved by Conservative MPs and Labour MPs, but few will be surprised that Labour MPs rate Andrew Marr and James Naughtie highly.
“The surprise is that Andrew Neil doesn’t figure in the Top 20 of either party. Conservative MPs have shown a masochistic tendency by voting Jeremy Paxman at eight, but Labour MPs don’t include him in their Top 20 at all.”
Topping the overall list:
1. Evan Davis
2. Jeremy Paxman
3. Matthew Parris
4. Nick Robinson
5. John Humphrys
So who do the Tories like…?
1. Evan Davis
2. Jonathan Oliver
3. Jeremy Vine
4. Carolyn Quinn
5. Martha Kearney
And who do Labour like….?
1. Andrew Marr
2. Michael White
3. David Aaronovitch
4. Polly Toynbee
5. Evan Davis
And journalists themselves…?
1. Nick Robinson
2. Jeremy Paxman
3. Evan Davis
4. David Dimbleby
5. John Humphrys
And the top blog…? A certain Iain Dale’s Diary, followed by Tim Montgomerie (2) and Guido Fawkes (3).
Helen Alexander CBE, former chief executive of the Economist and former PPA chair, will receive the Marcus Morris Award for her ‘outstanding contribution’ to magazine publishing on Monday.
The award recognises ‘significant and longstanding contributions to the magazine publishing industry in the UK,’ a release from the PPA said.
Alexander was chief executive of the Economist Group from 1997-2008. According to the release, she was ‘pivotal’ in the growth and development of the company: in her last five years profits grew by 75 per cent.
She chaired the PPA from 2006-8 and was awarded a CBE in 2004.
Reed Business Information’s (RBI) Tom Vaughan was a double winner at today’s Periodical Training Council’s (PTC) New Journalist of the Year awards.
Vaughan, who writes for Caterer and Hotelkeeper, picked up the overall award and new business features journalist too. Unfortunately (or fortunately for him) he was in absent – busy holidaying in Switzerland – and had the awards collected on his behalf.
The awards, which focus on new or young journalists in the UK magazine industry, also saw prizes for Jheni Osman, editor of Focus from BBC Magazines, who was named new editor of the year.
Full list of the winners:
Overall winner – Tom Vaughan, Caterer and Hotelkeeper, RBI
New editor of the year – Jheni Osman, Focus, BBC Magazine; (highly commended) Lucy Scott, Property Week, CMP Information
New section editor of the year – Emma Dent, Health Service Journal, EMAP Inform; (highly commended) Tom Bill, Building, CMP Information
New consumer journalist of the year – Josh Woodfin, FHM, Bauer Media; (highly commended) Jo Adnitt, Look, IPC Media
New consumer specialist/customer magazine journalist of the year – Ben Brain, Photoplus, Future Publishing
New magazine designer of the year – Tina Smith, Property Week, CMP Information; (highly commended) Luke O’Neill, Computer Arts, Future Publishing
New business journalist of the year – Crispin Dowler, Inside Housing, Ocean Media Group; (highly commended) Victoria Gill, Chemistry World, Royal Society of Chemistry
New business features journalist of the year – Tom Vaughan, Caterer and Hotelkeeper, RBI; (highly commended) Lydia Stockdale, Property Week, CMP Information
Most promising student journalist of the year: Audrey Ward, MA magazine journalism, City University; (highly commended) Alix O’Neill, MA magazine, Goldsmiths
B2B websites are used by 97 per cent of ‘business decision makers’, a new study conducted by IPSOS for the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) shows.
The results, quoted from the AOP’s release:
B2B websites are the first port of call when:
“51 per cent choosing B2B websites as a preferred source of business information; B2B websites are also favoured over two and a half times more than TV, Radio, Magazines and Newspapers sources combined,” the AOP reported, in a release.
B2B sites are also shown to provide a highly effective medium for advertisers:
“82 per cent of all business decision makers use at least one B2B digital delivery mechanism for work, rising to 91 per cent among regular B2B websites users.
“Email alerts/newsletters are the most popular (51 per cent) followed by platforms which provide feedback: peer reviews, blogs and forums; but other systems such as RSS feeds, online seminars, podcast, vodcast and video streaming are gaining momentum.
“A core minority of respondents are currently using five or more of these delivery mechanisms; and overall 39 per cent, of those surveyed, expect to increase their use of digital delivery mechanisms in the next 12 months.”
Of those using five or more digital delivery mechanisms (70 per cent) found that B2B websites offer more engaging content and advertising than other business information sources and considered them to:
“This is an important snapshot of the business community and their use of B2B websites, and further supports the insights gathered in the AOP Census 2008 which showed that our members are increasing their investment in content delivery methods including IPTV, mobile, vodcast, podcast and RSS feeds,” Liz Somerville, the acting director of AOP said, in the release from the AOP.
Incisive Media has completed its redundancy consultation, reports Press Gazette. Between 20 and 30 editorial jobs will be cut – about half the number initially suggested.
Further to reports today, that Emap is to make content from its Inform titles (which include Health Service Journal, Retail Week and its Drapers brands) free online, we have been told that is not really news. In fact, all the sites have been made free over the last few months.
“All new content created on Emap Inform sites is now free to air,” Conor Dignam, Emap’s digital director, told Journalism.co.uk.
“Some of our older archives remain behind either subs or registration barriers, but they too will go free overtime. We’re also moving all Emap Inform brands to a new CMS and redesigning all of the websites.
“This is a reflection of what we see as a different relationship with print and online users. There may be some content that remains behind barriers on some of the brands, but for the most part we are looking at our online content being free to air,” Dignam said.
“The editors here have welcomed that move which is putting more content in front of their audiences and bringing more relevant people to their sites.”
Last night the British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) named its 12 editors of the year along with a host of other awards, including an honorary award for publisher Felix Dennis.
Courtesy of the relaunched BSME website, here’s the full list of winners:
Editors of the year
Customer magazines (consumer readership) – Alec Marsh, Private Banking
Women’s magazines (monthly or less frequent) – Alexandra Shulman, Vogue
Women’s magazines (weekly or fortnightly) – Ali Hall, Look
Youth magazines – Beccy Bland, Sparkle World
Business & professional magazines – Danny Rogers, PR Week
Business & professional magazines (non-weekly) – Dickon Ross, Engineering & Technology
Men’s magazines – Dylan Jones, GQ
Entertainment & celebrity magazines – Mark Dinning, Empire
Lifestyle magazines – Maureen Rice, Psychologies
Special interest & current affairs magazines – Michael Harris, Golf Monthly
Newspaper magazines – Michelle Lavery, Telegraph Magazine
Customer magazines (business readership) – Paul Simpson, DCM
Others
Business magazine website of the year – Andre Rickerby, Drapersonline.com
Consumer magazine website of the year – David Moynihan, NME.com
The Mark Boxer Award – Felix Dennis
Editors’ editor of the year – Jane Bruton, editor-in-chief, Grazia
Art director of the year – Marissa Bourke, Elle
Launch of the year – Phil Hilton, ShortList
Campaign of the year – Rachel Downey, Time Out for Training campaign, Nursing Times
Innovation/Brand-building initiative of the year – Stuart Knott, Contact Sensory issue, Contact
The Fiona Macpherson new editor of the year – Tony Chambers, Wallpaper*
Press Gazette last night presented its 2008 Magazine Design and Journalism Awards. Here’s a run-down of the winners from last night’s ceremony:
Young Designer of the Year: Dominic Bell, Wallpaper
Best Designed Magazine of the Year – Consumer (Over 40k): Meirion Pritchard, Wallpaper
Best Designed Magazine of the Year: Meirion Pritchard, Wallpaper
Best Designed Features Spread: Grant Bowden, Ritz
Best Use of Typography: Grant Bowden, Ritz
Best New Design/Redesign: Marissa Bourke, Elle
Best Designed Front Cover: Marissa Bourke, Elle
Best Use of Illustration: Tan Parmar, Contact
Best Use of Photography: Dan Delaney, Onelife
Reviewer of the year: Andrew Billen, The London Magazine
Digital Journalist of the Year: Paul Grant, Accountancy Age
Business Reporter of the Year: Stuart MacDonald, Building
Exclusive of the year: Jonathan Green, Live
Feature Writer of the Year: Ariel Leve, The Sunday Times Magazine
Magazine Designer of the Year: Jonathan Gregory, Dirt Magazine
Editor of the Year: David Burton, Camouflage
Best-Designed B2B magazine: Dean Dorat, Contagious
Interviewer of the Year: Lesley White, The Sunday Times Magazine
Best-Designed Customer magazine: Dan Delaney, Onelife
Columnist of the Year: Michael Hodges, Time Out
Production Team of the Year: Esquire
Best Designed Magazine of the Year Consumer (Under 40k): Paul Willoughby & Rob Longworth, Little White Lies
News Reporter of the Year: Sally Gainsbury, Health Service Journal